This isn't going to have any positive impact for Obama. We Americans resent it when other countries try to tell us for whom to vote because it's pretty obvious that the citizenry of other countries don't have our best interests at heart. You'll have to work hard to convince me this poll isn't the kiss of death for Obama:

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.

More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.

The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.

"Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents," GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.

That's because he seems to represent the rest of the world better than he does his own country. The BBC did a world poll back in 2004 that put John Kerry on top of George W. Bush for whom the world prefered as president of the United States. Didn't do Kerry any good and I don't expect this will do Obama any good, either.

A simple comment: It's none of their damned business who WE elect as OUR president! In fact, I do believe they are forbidden by our own laws to interfere or participate in any way in our national elections. And while we're on the subject, why is it that so many FOREIGN actors and actresses seem to get away with making contributions to Obamamessiah's campaign? That also is illegal and the so-called "chosen one" should be called to account for yet another ethical blunder! Then again, what is one among so many?

I'm tired of hearing about polls on what the rest of the world thinks of America. This kind of stuff galvanizes my support for McCain/Palin. If Obama is elected, he just may let Russia go ahead and have Georgia, because, hey, the US can get along fine with just 56 states.

it's never about what you say you are (otherwise, the pharisees would be seen as the greatest Christians, with all the money they gave, and the praying they did, and the fasting that they demonstrated to those who would see).

O Hussein, with the church he attended and the liberal positions he has taken (including opposing the "born alive protection act") is most certainly not a Christian in the sense that God recognizes.

e Americans resent it when other countries try to tell us for whom to vote because it's pretty obvious that the citizenry of other countries don't have our best interests at heart.

Kim, other countries are not trying to tell us who to vote for. They are answering a question posed to them about who they hope wins the election. These are opinions, not demands. Surely we can all agree that the rest of the world (or some portion of it) is allowed to have opinions about the U.S. presidential election. Surely it doesn't come as a shock that who the U.S. president is affects the rest of the world. Perhaps, in having a preference about who becomes president in the U.S. -- even though they cannot act on that preference -- people in other parts of the world have *their* best interests at heart, as they define them.

"Americans resent it when other countries try to tell us for whom to vote because it's pretty obvious that the citizenry of other countries don't have our best interests at heart." -- Kim

Complete worthless crap. Okay, Kim, go on and find a citation in which "other countries try to tell us for whom to vote," and then name the countries. Go on, I dare you. But before you do, am I to interpret your stated preference for McCain/Palin as telling me who to vote for? Yes or no? Is logic something unknown to you?

And as to the cynical claim about other countries not having our best interests at heart, do you wish ill will upon, say, Kenyans, Danes, or Indians? Or do you instead prefer that things work out well for them? What does your god instruct you to do? Let's say you want them to be happy. Is is unreasonable that they would want us to be happy too?

Let us say, purely for the sake of argument, that Kenyans prefer the policies of Mr. Jesus Christ to those of Mr. John McCain. Does it therefore follow that the wise thing for you to do, Kim, is to reject the policies of Mr. Christ, as Kenyans "don't have our best interest at heart"?

SINCE WHEN IS BEING WELL-LIKED ABROAD SUPPOSED TO BE A BAD THING? Are you conservatives wanting constant war, and can't get it if we're getting along well with other nations?

"Okay, Kim, go on and find a citation in which "other countries try to tell us for whom to vote,".."

See that word, "try," Oyster? It is in what we call present tense, not past tense. If the distinction is not known to you, ask your teacher for help. And what does this mean, Oyster? It MEANS THAT POSTS THAT ARE (EXPLETIVE_DELETED) FOUR YEARS OLD DON'T COUNT!

I know, I know, you conservatives love to live in the past. But this is ridiculous.